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107. An Olive Branch
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2023-08-15 14:31:17SCARLETT.
"Finn, can we not talk about who I've been texting? What I said still stands."
He nodded. "Sorry for asking."
Whatever I was doing now was either going to make or break my relationship with Raya and Finn.
Volkov was planning to visit after so much persuasion. Though I hadn't told him about Raya and cancer— which was not in my place to do, he was coming to visit me at the hospital anyway.
He already got his plane ticket and was to land at LAX tomorrow and I had never been so excited.
I had spent most of yesterday planning and brainstorming because I didn't want this to end as a disaster or something they'd all hate me for and I really hoped it worked.
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